North Country At Work

Trainees in the radio shop at the US Signal Corps School. 1942-1943. Paul Smiths, NY. Courtesy of the Paul Smith’s College Joan Weill Adirondack Library Archives.

Ray Hansen pasting up the front page of the Carthage Republican Tribune sometime in the late 1980s or 1990s. Carthage, NY. Courtesy of Donna Hansen.

Donna Hansen at her desk in the Carthage Republican Tribune in the 1990s. Carthage, NY. Courtesy of Donna Hansen.

Post office workers. From right: Mr. Adams, Huldah, unknown woman (initials AMB), and Vila. Photograph by J.S. Wooley. 1908. Silver Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Linda Sturtevant standing on the front steps of Rubyor’s General Store and Post Office. To her left is a sign listing their hours, an American flag handing from a rod, and an advertisement for Pepsi. To her right is a community bulletin. Photograph by Mathias T. Oppersdorff. 1986-1987. Woodgate, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

The offices of the Leland House. A counter with glass display cases sits beside a fancy counter with a “Telegraph Office” window at the corner. Pigeon hole mail rack below deer head mounted behind this desk. Through a doorway in the background there is a man with a violin standing beside a piano and a […]

Man stands atop a Fox News Movietone truck operating a motion picture camera. Another man on the ground with a microphone on a tripod. Photograph by William F. Kollecker. February 9. 1929. Saranac Lake, NY. Donated by Maitland DeSorma, courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Exterior view of the Lake Clear Junction Post Office. Two men and a dog in front. Photograph by Henry M. Beach. Circa 1910. Lake Clear Junction, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Workers in front of the Newton Falls post office and store. 1910s. Newton Falls, NY.

Advertising photograph for Westinghouse Electric Range, NYS Gas & Electric Co. Men working on power lines/poles. Date and location unknown. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.